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Lisa Simpkinson

@lisasimpkinson

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Three of the Pilates cues I’ve retired for good. Belly button to spine. Engage your core. Shoulders down.

Each one creates the exact problem it’s trying to fix.

A lot of teachers have found the series since August, so if you’re new here, this is the one free thing I want you to have. Every cue on the sheet comes with why it fails and what I say instead.

Comment CUES and I’ll send it to your DMs.

#pilatescues #pilatesteacher #pilatesteachertraining #pilatesinstructor by @lisasimpkinson

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25 days ago

Sometimes the Pilates industry takes itself just a tiny bit too seriously 👀

The obsession with “perfect” alignment...
the over-cueing... the rigid instructors...
the 37 prop changes per class...

So we created:
“Stick Up Your Arse Pilates”
Coming soon to an overly serious studio near you 😜

#pilates#pilatesstudio#pilatesteacher#pilatesclass#pilatesinstructor by @lisasimpkinson

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5 months ago

We renamed Contrology, called it Pilates, and lost the plot.

He built a practice for the whole nervous system and we kept the choreography.

If you teach and you have felt the gap between technically correct and actually alive, that gap is the whole reason I am building what I am building.

#josephpilates #contrology #pilatesphilosophy #pilatesteachertraining taken in Village Pilates by @lisasimpkinson

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A few years ago I was teaching a class and it was going sideways. It was getting a little bit out of control, I’m not going to lie.

So I stopped. I changed the next exercise, and it became very much about breathing and regulating the nervous system.

What I really learned is how much time we spend on the outward blame game. The client doesn’t understand. They’re not listening to me.

It all actually starts from us. Calm yourself down, centre yourself, and then you can really teach from a place of knowing. by @lisasimpkinson

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What to do when your Pilates class plan stops working in the first five minutes.

Keep the intention and change the exercise. Range, load, spring, position, tempo, support. And when none of the six is enough, the whole bloody exercise.

The plan is scaffolding. Walk in confident and be willing to lose it, because nobody in the room has read it.

Save this for the next class that goes sideways.

I keep the whole list of cues I’ve retired, and what I say instead, on one page. Comment CUES and it’s yours.

#pilatesclassplanning #pilatesinstructor #pilatesteacher #pilatesteachertraining by @lisasimpkinson

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The class plan I wrote at 9pm versus the six humans who actually turned up.

Keep the intention. Change the exercise.

That’s the whole job on a morning like that one.

#pilatesinstructor #pilatesteacher #pilateshumour #pilatesclassplanning by @lisasimpkinson

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Pilates teacher training is a swimming pool. Flat water, lanes, somebody watching from the edge.

Real teaching is an Australian beach. Currents, things under the surface, conditions that change while you’re standing in them.

So the skill nobody assessed you on, pivoting when the plan stops working, is the one you use every day.

There are eight of these. Follow along and you get the whole argument, not the one minute of it that came up on your feed.

#pilatesteachertraining #pilatesteacher #pilatesinstructor #pilatesmentor by @lisasimpkinson

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What Pilates teacher training didn’t cover, and what you only find out is missing once you’re in front of a real body.

You practised on people who already speak Pilates. Then you graduated and met someone who has never heard the word sacrum.

Certification is an entry ticket. The teaching gets built afterwards, on real people, usually with no supervision and no feedback.

If you’re early in this and it feels like everyone else got a manual you didn’t, they didn’t.

Save it for the week you feel like a fraud.

One of your colleagues is having the fraud week right now. Send it to her.

#pilatesteachertraining #pilatesinstructor #pilatesteacher #newpilatesinstructor by @lisasimpkinson

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9 days ago

The cue you learnt in Pilates teacher training and have never actually said to a real client. Go.

Mine’s belly button to spine.

It makes people grip and hold their breath, so I cue the breath instead. Nobody’s missed it.

#pilatesteacher #pilatescueing #pilatesinstructor #pilatesteachertraining by @lisasimpkinson

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10 days ago

Shoulders down. What does that even mean?

Down where? And how far?

She jams them down, holds her breath, and her neck disappears.

It’s one of the six cues on my retire list.

The Pilates cueing swap: lengthen the back of your neck, feel broad across your shoulders.

Comment CUES and I’ll send you the full sheet, all six, with the swaps I use instead.

#pilatescueing #pilatesteacher #pilatesinstructor #pilatescues by @lisasimpkinson

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11 days ago

Eight episodes of the Teacher’s Cut, and one shift underneath all of them, from teaching the manual to teaching like yourself.

Pilates teacher training gave you the exercises. Everything in here is the part that came afterwards, the bit nobody examined you on.

Season one, saved in one place. Season two starts Monday.

The cues I’ve retired and exactly what I say instead are on one page. Comment CUES and it lands in your DMs.

#pilatesteacher #pilatesteachertraining #pilateseducation #pilatesinstructor by @lisasimpkinson

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16 days ago

Finish the sentence. The Pilates cue I’ll never stop saying, no matter how many workshops tell me to, is ______.

Mine’s in the comments.

Give me the one you’re a little bit ashamed of and will defend to the death anyway.

#pilatescues #pilatesteacher #pilateshumour #pilatesinstructor by @lisasimpkinson

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